As well as sorting natively, this also has the advantage of being
absolutely clear which part is the month and which is the day. (In your
example, I can’t tell whether you are using American middle-endian dates
or not)

I don’t know about the situation in other countries but in Germany the
date format you SHOULD use (in an RFC sense, the DIN standard says so)
is
that ISO standard form. Other formats are only tolerable but not
desireable. Which does not mean that many Germans use that format. You
hear me frequently protest against forms that still use antiquated date
formats